Synopses & Reviews
The leading Microsoft Office application experts together in one book!Here's the best of the best on Office 2007
Microsoft designed Office 2007 to be used as a package. We designed this Bible as a package that combines the best from the Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Access Bibles with chapters covering Publisher, OneNote, and InfoPath, as well as Groove and SharePoint. It's a veritable buffet of information from some of the leading Office application experts. You'll learn to take advantage of every new feature and how they all work together to help you work better.
- Become familiar with the new across-the-board interface
Polish your Word document formatting and learn to use tables, mail merge, and SmartArt
Organize your Excel data, manipulate data with formulas and functions, and show off your data visually with charts
Create PowerPoint presentations that engage your audience with the right layouts, art, and effects
Build Access databases and forms and generate Access reports
Manage contacts, appointments, and e-mail
Create exciting publications, organize information, and create automated forms
Synopsis
Completely revised for Office 2007, this “best of the Bible” presents Office you with the most useful content from leading experts like John Walkenbach, Cary Prague, Faithe Wempen, and Herb Tyson. The book features valuable information to help you—no matter your level of expertise—get up to speed on the new features in Excel, Access, Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint. You’ll quickly get savvy with the most widely used business application suite worldwide.
Synopsis
* Office is the most widely used business application suite worldwide; available in more than 70 languages and used by more than 90 percent of the business world
About the Author
John Walkenbach is a leading Excel authority and the author of the bestselling
Excel 2007 Bible and over 40 other books.
Herb Tyson is the author of Word 2007 Bible and has received the Microsoft MVP award for Word yearly for over ten years.
Faithe Wempen is a Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor and author of PowerPoint 2007 Bible. She has taught Microsoft Office applications to over a quarter of a million online students for corporations.
Cary N. Prague and Michael R. Groh are coauthors of the bestselling Access 2007 Bible. Prague is founder of Database Creations, the world's largest Access add-on company and has written over 30 books on database topics. Groh specializes in application development using Access and is Advisor Answers columnist for Advisor Guide to Microsoft Access Magazine.
Peter G. Aitken wrote Outlook 2007 Bible and over 40 other computer books.
Lisa A. Bucki has been an author and trainer on computer topics for over 15 years and wrote Teach Yourself Visually Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007.
Table of Contents
About the Authors.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: Common Office Features.
Chapter 1: Welcome to Microsoft Office 2007.
Chapter 2: Navigating in the New Office.
Chapter 3: Mastering Fundamental Operations.
Part II: Creating Documents with Word.
Chapter 4: Making a Document.
Chapter 5: Formatting 101: Font/Character Formatting.
Chapter 6: Paragraph Formatting.
Chapter 7: Styles.
Chapter 8: Page Setup and Sections.
Chapter 9: Tables and Graphics.
Chapter 10: Mail Merge.
Chapter 11: Document Security.
Part III: Making the Numbers Work with Excel.
Chapter 12: Using Excel Worksheets and Workbooks.
Chapter 13: Entering and Editing Worksheet Data.
Chapter 14: Essential Worksheet and Cell Range Operations.
Chapter 15: Introducing Formulas and Functions.
Chapter 16: Working with Dates and Times.
Chapter 17: Creating Formulas That Count and Sum.
Chapter 18: Getting Started Making Charts.
Chapter 19: Working with Database Tables in Excel.
Part IV: Persuading and Informing with PowerPoint.
Chapter 20: A First Look at PowerPoint 2007.
Chapter 21: Creating a Presentation, Slides, and Text.
Chapter 22: Working with Layouts, Themes, and Masters.
Chapter 23: Working with Tables and Charts.
Chapter 24: Using SmartArt Diagrams, Clip Art, and Pictures.
Chapter 25: Building Animation Effects, Transitions, and Support Materials.
Chapter 26: Delivering a Live Presentation.
Part V: Organizing Messages, Contacts, and Time with Outlook.
Chapter 27: Fundamentals of E-Mail.
Chapter 28: Processing and Securing E-Mail.
Chapter 29: Working with Contacts.
Chapter 30: Working with Appointments and Tasks.
Part VI: Designing Publications with Publisher.
Chapter 31: Introducing Publisher.
Chapter 32: Design Dazzling Publications with Publisher.
Part VII: Tracking Detailed Data with Access.
Chapter 33: An Introduction to Database Development.
Chapter 34: Creating Access Tables.
Chapter 35: Creating and Entering Data with Basic Access Forms.
Chapter 36: Selecting Data with Queries.
Chapter 37: Presenting Data with Access Reports.
Part VIII: Gathering Information.
Chapter 38: Keeping Information at Hand with OneNote.
Chapter 39: Making Data Forms with InfoPath.
Part IX: Sharing and Collaboration.
Chapter 40: SharePoint.
Chapter 41: Groove .
Chapter 42: Integration with Other Office Applications.
Appendix A: Customizing Office.
Appendix B: Optimizing Your Office Installation.
Appendix C: International Support and Accessibility Features.
Index.